The snapping shrimp, aka the pistol shrimp, is one of the loudest creatures in the ocean, thanks to the snaps produced by its whip-fast claws. And juvenile snapping shrimp are even faster than ...

The shrimp with super fast claws is called Alpheus heterochaelis, or snapping shrimp, and lives in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico Scientists have discovered a tiny baby shrimp ...

When it comes to a quick draw, few creatures outgun adult snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis). They stun passing fish and foes with a simple click of a spring-loaded claw, which squirts a high ...

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Snapping shrimp have one normal claw and one large snapper claw that can be up to half its body size, making the shrimp look like it's wearing an overgrown boxing glove. The claw stays cocked open ...

Scientists had always believed that the distinctive crackling noise of shrimp colonies came from mechanical contact between two parts of the creatures' claws. But a new study, reported in the journal ...

But their legs are a little bit different from each other. Shrimp have one pair of legs that include claws at the end, but prawns have three pairs with claws. Prawns also tend to have legs that ...

Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the adult shrimp’s claws crash together at eye-watering speeds of up to 30 metres per second and the whole process is over in less ...